Why granny smuggled drugs in her bra to her son

A URANGAN grandmother used her bra to smuggle drugs to her son in Maryborough Correctional Centre, the Hervey Bay District Court heard.

Rosalie Anne Pannett, 61, yesterday pleaded guilty to supplying a dangerous drug and giving a prohibited item to a prisoner.

The court heard Pannett smuggled a strip of five tablets of the narcotic suboxone along with a cigarette lighter, tobacco and papers in her bra when she went to visit her son in prison on February 7 earlier this year.

Crown prosecutor Chris Cook said prison officials saw Pannett take a package from under her shirt and towards her son's shorts. The court heard prison officers then searched her son, Michael Gordon Thompson, and found the package.

Mr Cook told the court the drugs had a street value of about $40 per tablet and would have a much higher value in prison.

"This is an offence which strikes at the very heart of the justice system," he said.